Today, nearly forty-five spring and autumn have passed since the death of the great Mao Zedong, but to this day, his brilliance still shines in the hearts of every generation, like an eternal candle.
The masses of the people are the creators of history, the Chinese nation is now prosperous and developed, and the Communist Party of China is immortal today, and it is inseparable from the broad masses, but what we cannot deny is that without the leadership of Mao Zedong, the Communist Party of China would not have built a brand-new New China in which the people would all stand up in just twenty-eight years after its founding.
He is the helmsman who stands at the head of the tide of history, and he uses his fearless heroism to lead China's giant ship through the terrifying waves and towards a bright future. The success of the Communist Party of China is a mystery in the eyes of many outsiders, the so-called "Xiucai rebellion, three years will not succeed", Mo said three years, three hundred years may not be successful, but the Communist Party of China has achieved it within thirty years, the famous scholar and soldier Jin Yinan said: Because China has produced a Mao Zedong. To understand the success of the Chinese Communist Party, we must first understand Mao Zedong.
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The day of Mao Zedong's birth was also the time when the country was devastated, and he was just the son of a peasant family born in Shaoshan, Hunan, whose father had become a soldier because of excessive debt, and then returned to the village to do some small business, actively saved money, bought back his own fields, and became a middle peasant. Mao Zedong was the eldest son in the family, and his father gave him hope that he would only learn to do farm work and buy more land for the family, but the young Mao Zedong was not here.
Since childhood, Mao Zedong has loved to read, and has read all the heroes in the world of "Water Margin" and "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and those rivers and lakes and the feelings of home and country have profoundly influenced him, so that his pride and ambition have slowly taken root in his heart since that time.
Throughout his youth, Mao Zedong often went to his grandmother's house, and the collection of books in his grandmother's house and the new books brought back by his cousin from the new school greatly comforted and enriched his life, and led him in the direction of the future. He read through the twenty-four histories and the Zizhi Tongjian, and also accepted Western culture, he absorbed knowledge in books, and also increased his talents in books.
The father did not like Mao Zedong to be fascinated by the reading, often because he did not release the scroll in the field and at the dinner table, Mao Zedong and his father quarreled because of this, but later the father found that even if his son spent a lot of time studying, he could finish the farm work he should do, so he did not say anything.
Other peasant children only knew that they had to work hard to buy more land, but unlike Mao Zedong, seventeen years of rural life made him deeply understand the suffering of the vast number of peasants, cultivated a deep affection for the peasants, and made him realize that a truly powerful country should put the interests of the people first, so that the toiling masses no longer have to live a life of ups and downs.
In 1911, when the Xinhai Revolution broke out, mao Zedong, who was full of spirit, packed his bags, left his homeland in Shaoshan, bid farewell to his relatives, and went to Changsha to study. He crossed many places to reach Changsha, but as far as the revolutionary career of the great man is concerned, it is as if he crossed the mountains and seas and began a new journey.
The slogan of the Xinhai Revolution "expel the Tartars and restore China" and the heroic sacrifice of the seventy-two martyrs of Huanghuagang deeply shocked Mao Zedong, who looked at the name of the revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen in the newspaper and realized that there were still thousands of people who had the same revolutionary ideals as him.
After the May Fourth Movement, Mao Zedong came into contact with Marxism, and he was good at independent thinking, and he knew from the Communist Manifesto that class struggle was the driving force of social development. At the same time as coming into contact with Marxism, Mao Zedong also knew a group of communists, with whom he was like-minded and willing to give everything for the lofty ideal of the rejuvenation of the whole nation.
In 1920, Mao Zedong organized communism in Hunan. On the red boat in Jiaxing in 1921, Mao Zedong, along with twelve other communist pioneers, founded the Chinese Communist Party in the midst of bitter wind and rain.
The growth career of the party is also the growth career of Mao Zedong.
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Mao Zedong was actually on the fringes of the party for a long time, but later he came to the core position of the party, which relied on his historical consciousness and responsibility.
From 1925 onwards, Mao Zedong pointed out the extreme importance of the peasant struggle in the revolution, and pointed out the mistakes of Chen Duxiu, who at that time did not have such a high voice in the Party, and what he said did not convince others, until the regime encountered setbacks one after another because of ideological and policy errors, the Communists began to examine themselves again, to explore where the problem was, and Mao Zedong entered the leadership of the Party Central Committee for the first time.
In 1927, the first rupture of cooperation between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, at the Eighty-Seventh Conference, Mao Zedong proposed: "Power is won by the barrel of a gun", emphasizing the importance of armed struggle, after the meeting, the central leadership asked Mao Zedong to go to the Shanghai organs, Mao Zedong believed that as far as the current situation is concerned, it is not a good practice to capture the city, it is likely to bring great losses to the party, and it is necessary to go to the weak place where the enemy's rule is weak.
He led the autumn harvest uprising on the borders of Hunan and Jiangxi, and then resolutely led his troops to Jinggangshan and took the road of encircling the city from the countryside. Some people disagree, thinking that going to the mountains is like being a bandit and being the king of the mountains, what kind of revolution is it? Mao Zedong said:
"Our mountain king is a special mountain king, a mountain king led by the Communist Party, a mountain king with doctrines, policies, and methods."
Facts have proved that "the workers and peasants are divided by force, and the countryside surrounds the cities" is a unique weapon of the Communist Party of China, which has given the Communist Party an independent economic source and gradually has an independent political and military foundation. Mao Zedong resolutely saved the party from danger, and it was not until the Zunyi Conference that his leadership position in the Party Central Committee was initially established, and China's revolutionary cause began to embark on a broad avenue of stars.
Jin Yinan mentioned:
"Why does the Red regime exist? We have standard answers today: first, the brilliant guidance of Marxism; second, the wise leadership of the Communist Party of China; third, the loyal support of the broad masses of the people; and fourth, the heroic struggle of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. But these are all things that we came up with sitting in the air-conditioned room drinking tea, which was not the case at all, and the first and most fundamental and crucial thing was not Marxism, not the leadership of the Communist Party, not even the support of the masses of the people, but the war between the white regimes, which is China's national conditions. ”
That is to say, it was the warlords' scuffle that enabled the Chinese revolution to survive in the cracks and blossom until it achieved final victory.
Jin Yinan used the allusion of "Cu Ding to solve the cow" to compare Mao Zedong Thought, he believes that Mao Zedong Thought is the knife in Cu Ding's hand, the knife is not hard cut, but through the gap between the meat and the bone, to make the whole cow successfully decomposed.
Mao Zedong first completed the sinicization of Marxism and integrated Marxist theory with the concrete practice of the Chinese revolution. Mao Zedong's profound understanding of society and such historical self-consciousness were the ladder for him to step by step step up the leadership core of the Party Central Committee.
Mao Zedong said:
"The spark of a spark can ignite the plains."
He had the vision and courage to bring the revolution, which was originally weak and weak, to the stage of history and to achieve its rise. The Zunyi conference's choice of Mao Zedong was not a compromise of the party, but a desire for victory. In the words of Jin Yinan:
"Mao Zedong's historical consciousness not only greatly changed his own destiny, but also greatly changed the destiny of the country and the nation."
On the political road, Mao Zedong also encountered setbacks, but he never gave up his revolutionary ideals because of difficulties, and repeated setbacks only made him more and more frustrated and courageous, more firm in his revolutionary beliefs, and bounced up like a leather ball again and again. By the Sixth Plenary Session of the Sixth Central Committee in 1938, Mao Zedong was actually presiding over the work of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, and all major issues of the Party had been decided by Mao Zedong.
In April 1945, the Seventh National Congress of the Communist Party of China was held in Yan'an, at which Mao Zedong delivered an opening speech and a political report entitled "On coalition government." At the First Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee, Mao Zedong, Zhu De, Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, and Ren Bishi were elected as secretaries of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, and Mao Zedong was elected chairman of the CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Politburo and the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee.
Mao Zedong Thought, an ideological system that has matured over the course of the revolutionary years, has been written into the Party Constitution and has become the Party's guiding theory. At this point, Mao Zedong's organizational and ideological leadership position in the party was fully established.
Mao Zedong was the core of the party's first generation of leadership. The formation of the party's first generation of leadership core represented by Mao Zedong has given our party a sound leadership system, and it is also a sign of our party's transition from naivety to maturity.
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"Serving the people wholeheartedly" has always been the eternal fundamental aim of our party, which has not changed before, has not changed now, and will not change in the future.
Why did the Communist Party under Mao Zedong eventually succeed? The fundamental reason for this is that the Communist Party of China has always put the interests of the people in the first place and has always stood on the united front with the broad masses of the people.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "those who win the hearts and minds of the people will win the world", but in fact, as long as the absolute monarchy exists for one day, there is the saying "emperor" under the whole world, and the upper leaders will never be able to stand on the same front with the common people, and there will never be real equality, not to mention that there have been so many monarchs in all dynasties who have not paid attention to the people, and the common people are just ants in the eyes of these nobles, and those who obey the king can live, and those who rebel against the king will die.
On closer examination, the broad masses are the basis of rule, and the masses, when they are treated unjustly, will sooner or later awaken and overthrow the monarchy, so the absolute monarchy is annihilated in the long river of history, but it is only a historical necessity.
When the Kuomintang came to power, the Three People's Principles originally expounded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen seemed to have become a pocket without a heart, and Chiang Kai-shek liked to divide people into three, six, and nine, and so on; in order to achieve the so-called hegemony, he could sacrifice the "useless people" in his eyes. It was precisely because of this that chiang kai-shek, even though he had a million strong divisions, lost to the Communist Party, whose equipment and military strength were far from being thrown out of the way by the Kuomintang army by several streets.
The Communist Party was once poor and white, but our Party has the most precious wealth, that is, the will of the people, and any ordinary citizen, no matter how humble, is supreme in the eyes of the Communist Party of China. Therefore, in times of war and chaos, we who are poor and white can get help from the common people all the way, and we can also take root in our revolution in the midst of thousands of ravines.
"Serving the people" originated from a speech made by Mao Zedong on September 8, 1944, at the memorial service of Comrade Zhang Side, who sacrificed himself to save others, in which he for the first time profoundly expounded the idea of serving the people. Since then, Mao Zedong has repeatedly emphasized this point in the Party, stressing:
"Serve the people wholeheartedly, never for a moment separated from the masses; everything proceeds from the interests of the people, not from the interests of individuals or small groups".
Since then, the phrase "serving the people" has become a rule and regulation, written into the Constitution, and become the basic norm for the majority of party members and workers in state organs. In fact, as early as the 1930s, when Mao Zedong Thought was just budding, this point was mentioned in this ideological theory, and as the ideological theory gradually matured, the connotation and meaning of "serving the people" became more extensive and profound.
Since his youth, Mao Zedong has vowed to seek happiness for the broad masses of the people, and when the candle of his life is about to burn out, his desire has not changed in the slightest. On the upper floor of Tiananmen Square in 1949, he shouted out in a full breath:
"Chinese people, stand up from now on!"
It was as if a voice had been stored for a long time. He knew that he had not done enough to Chinese people not only to stand up, but also to be really strong. He developed water conservancy, managed industry, strengthened scientific research, and carried out innovation, so that China, which had nothing, could have the capital to compete with people on the world stage, but also to benefit the broad masses of the people. From the miserable wind and rain to the blooming of a hundred flowers, Mao Zedong has been practicing the five big words of "serving the people" with actions.
Among Mao Zedong's inscriptions for others, the most written was "serving the people"; when US President Richard Nixon asked Mao Zedong what his specialty was, his answer was also:
"Serving the People".
In Mao Zedong's literary works, it is true that he shows his concern for the spiritual life of the people everywhere. History is in the same vein, and only when Mao Zedong cared for the people could the party care for the people and only then did the leaders of the future care for the people.
"A man dies three times in his life, once a brain death, which means physical death; the second time is a funeral, and people miss him, and then there is no place for him in this society; the third time is when the last man forgets him, and then he really dies."
The great man is dead, but he is still alive, and his brilliance is in the world, in everyone's heart, and never dissipates.